Ruane is star of the month

AOIBHINN Ruane has been voted Gain Star of the Month for June, after she won two consecutive Dublin working hunter qualifiers with Birol Nadir’s Zavy Echo. The day after her second win, she was crowned Intermediate Champion at the IPS Western Area Summer Show in Claregalway, before she travelled to Scotland to contest Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Show. There, she achieved the best result among the many Irish competitors when she won the Intermediate working hunter class before being pulled in as reserve champion, again with Zavy Echo. The focus now turns to the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show for the Kilkenny-based Ruane, for which she has also since qualified Birchill Pianoman in the intermediate side saddle section.